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Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Prisoner Unrest in Georgia by GA Prisoner, Anonymous By A Georgia Reader On Sunday, June 19, 1994, prisoners at Hancock Correctional Institution in Sparta, Georgia revolted in one of the worst prison riots in Georgia history. Damages were estimated at over one million dollars. Establishment media reports erroneously blamed the …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Recidivism Revisited by Michigan's corrections department recently released a five-year study of its paroled prisoners that reached the same conclusion as a similar six-year Louisiana study released last year: 55.2% of Michigan's 1986 parolees never returned to prison (nor did 56% of Louisiana's 1987 released prisoners). 5-year follow-up study on …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Medical, HIV/AIDS
TB Alert by David Gilbert By David Gilbert Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading infectious killer in the world. Long considered conquered in the industrialized nations, TB is now making a comeback in the U.S. Prison is one danger zone for this disease which can be spread by airborne bacteria. In …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
FBI Heroin Dealer by FBI agent Kenneth Withers stole one hundred pounds of high quality heroin from FBI evidence lockers and then sent mail solicitations with a one ounce sample packet of heroin, to drug dealers whose names he had acquired from FBI files. Withers, a seven year FBI veteran, …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
WSR Consent Decree Loses S. Ct. Challenge by Paul Wright By Paul Wright As consistently reported in PLN, most recently in the March, 1994, issue, prisoners at the Washington State Reformatory (WSR) have been involved in nearly 13 years of litigation involving prison officials' challenge to the consent decree they …
AZ Medical Care Unconstitutional by This lengthy (76 pages) opinion deals with a DOC-wide class action suit filed by Arizona state prisoners challenging the medical and dental care, treatment available for seriously mentally ill prisoners, and unequal medical treatment provided to females compared to that provided male prisoners. District court …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Peru's Lawyers: A High Risk Profession by Jose Enrique Gonzalez Ruiz "In the eyes and ears of the sinister power, all of us are under suspicion." Oiga Magazine Feb 21, 1994, p.5 To defend political prisoners in Peru is a delicate matter. The war that has been going on in …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Crimes Against Habeas Corpus by Susan Blaustein By Susan Blaustein With its myriad new death penalty offenses, "three-strikes" provisions, mandatory minimums and moneys for prisons and police, Congress left only one thing out of its much-vaunted new crime package: any protection for Americans' most basic constitutional rights. In their poll-driven …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Coalition and Prisoners Fight for Better Health Care by San Francisco, March 10, 1994 -- Despite a demonstration of over 100 people at the gates of Chowchilla prison on January 29 for better health care, the daily medical neglect and abuse continues unabated. Since the beginning of the year, three …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Lucasville Riot Tab $34 Million Plus by The 11 day rebellion at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, OH, which began on Easter day, 1993, left cell block L in ruins. So far it has cost the state $19.2 million to repair cellblock L alone. It cost $32.5 …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Statistics Under Attack: F.B.I. Director Speaks out in Support of DNA Profiling by Dale Gardner By Dale Gardner The method used by the FBI to calculate the frequency of a DNA match has been questioned in a recent paper. It is reported that the FBI calculates match probability based upon …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Help Get Mumia Abu-Jamal Back on the Air! by Noelle Hanrahan By Noelle Hanrahan Sunday May 15th, 1994: The New York Times ran an AP article "From Death Row: A Radio Show" highlighting the next day's premier of Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio commentaries on All Things Considered (ATC). Most major dailies …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Indonesia's Final Solution to Crime by The American media was recently awash over the case of Michael Fay, an American youth sentenced to four months in jail and 6 lashes of a cane for vandalism by a court in Singapore. Singapore's laws and justice system received a fair amount of …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Filed under: Attorneys, Public Defenders
Suit Challenges Inadequate PD Funding by Marc Lee By Marc Lee Many lawsuits have been filed throughout this country addressing the problems in indigent defense programs. Although many of these lawsuits have been successful in showing the inadequacies in the indigent defense programs, for the most part they have been …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Medical Help Sought for Danish POW by An international campaign has been launched to obtain better conditions of confinement and medical care for Swiss militant Marc Rudin, who is currently serving an eight year prison sentence for alleged robbery in Denmark. Rudin is better known as Jihad Mansour, the movement …
OR DOC Held in Contempt for Retaliatory Transfer by In 1988 Arlen Smith and several other Oregon state prisoners sought judicial review of Oregon DOC administrative regulations in Oregon state courts. Shortly before the briefs were due, Smith, the initiator of the litigation, was transferred to the Nevada state prison …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Oppression on the Rise in Arizona by O'Neil Stough By O'Neil Stough Arizona has joined the ranks of many other prisons nationwide where oppressive and tried-and-failed barbaric methods of the distant past are being re-instituted. Governor Fife Symington, up for reelection this year, and Director of Corrections, Sam Lewis whose …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Freedom for Political Prisoners by In July, 1992, different groups from around the world meeting in Munich, Germany over the 500th anniversary of the Columbus Encounter, formed a group called "Libertad!" around the goal of organizing an International Day of Action around the issue of political prisoners. The primary organizers …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
Researching Medical Deliberate Indifference by Dude J Rose By Dude J. Rose Prisoners have an eighth amendment right to adequate medical treatment. When bringing a claim of inadequate medical treatment, the plaintiff/prisoner must allege and show deliberate indifference on the part of the defendants towards the prisoner's medical needs and …
Article • August 15, 1994 • from PLN August, 1994
The Scandal of Prison "Management" by Jill Brotman By Jill Brotman Throughout the AFSC's decades of prison work it has encouraged reconciliation and nonviolent alternatives to conflict. But Massachusetts Governor William Weld has declared that a stay in prison should replicate a tour of the circles of hell. Current prison …
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